Good thank you. And part of the is it needs to be be able to write to the
directory where the other files are being created (what is .gbx and .nx are
some such) which by default are the data directories?
-Roy
PS - It is well known I am old and boring, what are you doing working
Thanksgiving?
> On Nov 23, 2017, at 3:53 PM, Sean Arms <sarms@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Roy,
>
> No worries - again, docs need to be improved :-)
>
> The tdm jar will prompt you for a password if you do not specify the cred
> flag (however, it might assume a user called tdm - on my phone at the moment,
> so not completely sure). The password used in the cred flag will be the one
> in the tomcat-users.xml file. The system user running the TDM process does
> not need a home directory or password, as long as it has the appropriate read
> and write permissions.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sean
>
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 4:45 PM Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal
> <roy.mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 23, 2017, at 3:39 PM, Sean Arms <sarms@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > In order for the TDM to talk to the TDS (that is, tell the TDS that new
> > files are available to serve and that the client catalogs need to be
> > refreshed), a Tomcat user needs to be configured such that it has the role
> > tdsTrigger intomcat-users.xml. In the docs, we call that tomcat user tdm,
> > but it can be whatever you like (I think), and again, is not tied to the
> > system user running the tdm process. The user and password configured in
> > tomcat-users.xml is the user and password given to the TDM via the cred
> > flag, which is passed to the tdm jar.
> >
> So I leave out the cred flag in the script to launch the TDM, it will ask
> me for a password, and the password I give it is the one in the
> tomcat-users.xml? Is that correct? And therefore the TDM user can be a user
> with no home directory and no login password, Am I understanding this?
>
> Sorry to be dense, but I would rather make certain I understand it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Roy
>
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"Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill."
"From those who have been given much, much will be expected"
"the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -MLK Jr.
